{"product_id":"satellite-9798217378913","title":"Satellite","description":"\u003cb\u003eA hypnotic, unforgettable novel about a married woman who finds herself at a crossroads after discovering a mysterious TV channel showing a woman who looks exactly like her\u003ci\u003e—\u003c\/i\u003ebut is living a radically different life\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt’s the mid-90s, and Paul and Johanna are living a comfortable life in rural New Jersey. When Paul met and wooed Johanna, she was waiting tables at a miserable dive in North Carolina. Now, she has a nice house, a pool, and a purpose: her charming, devastatingly handsome husband, a successful small-business owner nine years her senior. So when Paul sits down to dinner one night and asks her for a divorce, Johanna is utterly blindsided. She refuses.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSoon thereafter, Paul is paralyzed in an accident. Johanna becomes his devoted caretaker, and talk of separation is forgotten. In her free moments, Johanna watches television\u003ci\u003e—\u003c\/i\u003esatellite TV, with its hundreds of channels, a reliable escape from her arduous days. Until she stumbles on something unusual: an extra channel, not found in the TV guide, whose only show is a round-the-clock feed of a woman who looks, acts, and talks just like her. Except this other Johanna lives in New York City, alone, and seems to have a different person in her bed every night. As watching morphs from hobby to obsession, the drama moves off-screen and begins to encroach on Johanna’s real life, threatening everything she holds most dear.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eProvocative and profound, \u003ci\u003eSatellite\u003c\/i\u003e is a transfixing novel that boldly explores the love, care, boredom, pleasure, resentment, and connection that make a marriage—and how transgressive it can feel to choose yourself. As compulsively readable as it is deeply felt, this novel confirms Isle McElroy as a virtuosic writer at the height of their talents.","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"STANDARD","offer_id":62241930740099,"sku":"9798217378913","price":27.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0907\/8456\/3587\/files\/9798217378913.jpg?v=1785392968","url":"https:\/\/shopcomics.eu\/products\/satellite-9798217378913","provider":"Shop Comics EU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}